The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history.

Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences.

Early Liberal Thought and Practice1. Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Legislation2. Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon Papers3. T. B. Macaulay, Speech on Parliamentary Reform (2 March 1831)4. W. J. Fox, Speech before the Anti-Corn Law League (28 September 1843)5. 1846-47 Factory Legislation Debates6. Samuel Smiles, William Fairbairn7. Two Articles from The Economist (1851)8. Thomas Gisborne, Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex9. J. S. Mill and Harriet Taylor, Essays on Marriage and Divorce10. Victor Cousin, Speech on the Proposal to Reorganize the Medical Professsion (4 June 1847)11. G. W. F. Hegel, on the Family, Civil Society, and the State12. Documents on the Status of German Jewry and the Debate over Jewish Emancipation

The Social Question, Utopian Visions, and the Upheaval at Midcentury13. Charles Fourier, on the Phalanstery14. The Trial of the Saint Simonians in the Court of Assizes of Paris (27-28 August 1832)15. Flora Tristan, The Workers' Union (1843)16. Agricol Perdiguir, Memoirs of a Compagnon17. 1848 in France18. Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections19. Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte20. Louis Napoleon, Speech to the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce (1852)21. Heinrich von Gagern, Speech to the Frankfurt National Assembly on German Unity (26 October 1848)22. Macaulay on Jefferson in the 1850's: A Letter to H. S. Randall23. Giudeppe Mazzini, Duties to Country

Religion and Liberal Culture24. Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers25. William Wilberforce, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of the Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes, Contrasted with Real Christianity26. James Stephen, "The Clapham Sect"27. Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity28. Ernest Renan, The Life of Jesus29. Ernest Renan, The Intellectual and Moral Reform of France (1871)30. The Politics of French Anticlericalism: Speeches by Jules Ferry, Léon Gambetta, and Paul Bert31. French Schoolteachers' Testimonies from the Early Third Republic32. Edmund Gosse, Father and Son33. Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum34. Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks35. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Consitutionalism, Authoritarianism, and Nationalism in Germany36. Otto von Bismarck, Speech on the Constitution of the North German Confederation (11 March 1867)37. Otto von Bismarck, Speech on the Law for the Workmen's Compensation (15 March 1884)38. Eduard Lasker et. al., Founding Statement of the National Liberty Party (June 1867)39. Hermann von Mallinckrodt, Programmatic Statement for the Prussian Zentrum (May 1862)40. Hellmut von Gerlach, A Junker Paradise41. Max Weber, The National State and Economic Policy42. Heinrich von Treitschke, In Memory of the Great War